Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 9/18/2000
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of September 18, 2000
- News about Arafat - Barak meeting today
Current communications are currently taking place between the Divan of the Israeli prime minister Ihud Barak and the Palestinian government to arrange a meeting today between Barak and President Yasser Arafat. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/23/2000 - Palestinian leadership accuses Israel of blocking the establishment of the country
The Palestinian leadership accused the Israeli government of conducting a strong campaign to impose the accomplished fact and blocking the way before the establishment of an independent Palestinian country with its capital Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/23/2000 - Hassan Asfour depicts Palestinian - Israeli communication as absurd
Hasan Asfour, the Palestinian state minister expressed his hope that the anticipated U.S document concerning the Palestinian - Israeli peace process would not contain the same proposals and ideas that were presented in Camp David last summit. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/23/2000 - Discussions between al-Shara, Arafat
Arafat made that speech at the inaugural session of the meetings and al-Shara's proposed to adopt this speech as a base for the final statement, but Arafat retreated under the pretext that his speech was only for the media. Syria-Palestine, Politics, 9/21/2000 - El-Husseini accuses Israel of confiscating lands near Jerusalem Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/21/2000
- Arafat meets with Moratinos, US consul Palestine-USA, Politics, 9/21/2000
- Palestinian groups and the situation of Jerusalem
The Palestinian people's and Democratic Fronts, Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and the Arab liberation Front have warned against playing with the situation of Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian State. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/20/2000 - On Arafat's visit to Damascus
In statements to the Saudi daily Okaz issued on Tuesday, Palestinian and Syrian sources expected that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat will visit Damascus soon to convene a summit with President Bashar al-Assad. Syria-Palestine, Politics, 9/20/2000 - Resuming the Palestinian - Israeli negotiations today
The Palestinian - Israeli communications were resumed today as a meeting was held under the chairmanship of head of the Israeli delegation Gladea Sheer and the Palestinian top negotiator Saeb Ereikat. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/20/2000 - Al-Shara confers with Palestinian official in New York
The al-Ayam daily issued in the occupied Palestinian territories said that a meeting was held on Wednesday between the Palestinians minister of planning and international cooperation Nabil Shaath and the Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara, on the sideline of the meetings of the UN General Assembly. Syria-Palestine, Politics, 9/19/2000 - Arafat meets with heads of churches in Jerusalem Palestine, Politics, 9/19/2000
- Barak refuses the sovereignity of any Islamic party over Jerusalem
Israeli prime minister Ihud Barak said that he does not refuse turning the sovereignity of al- Aqsa mosque to the Palestinians only, yet he refuses turning it also to any other Islamic front and within this frame the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed negotiations in an attempt to bring together the stances concerning the final status causes. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/19/2000 - Clinton proposes the US document for solving the question of Jerusalem
US President Bill Clinton has prepared a document which he called the US proposal to solve the question of Jerusalem. Palestine-USA, Politics, 9/19/2000 - Al-Majali, al-Zanoun meet in Amman Jordan-Palestine, Politics, 9/19/2000
- An American plan to settle the question of Jerusalem
Amid news on a US plan which states the UN Security Council supremacy on al-Ibraheimi mosque and to divide Jerusalem with the aim to settle the Israeli- Palestinian disputes, the Israeli acting foreign minister Shloumo Bin Ami said that israel intends to keep its sovereignty on al-Ibraheimi mosque and will not give up " al-Haikal" site . He said " We have already have the Haikal and we will never give it up." Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/18/2000 - Palestinians recall Sabra, Shatila massacre
Palestinians in Lebanon recalled on Saturday family and friends killed in Beirut by Christian militiamen 18 years ago in the worst atrocity of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 9/18/2000 - Rallies In London and Washington to Support Palestinians' Right to Return
Approximately 4,000 supporters of the Palestinian Right to Return marched to the White House Saturday while in London a similar event was taking place with a turnout estimated by organizers at 2,000. Palestine, Politics, 9/18/2000 - Resuming the Palestinian - Israeli peace negotiations
The Palestinian and the Israeli peace negotiators in Jerusalem convened in Jerusalem for the first time since the approval of the Palestinian government last week on delaying the declaration of the Palestinian country with its capital Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/18/2000